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<h1 id="poster/Contents">Posterior Simulator (poster Objects)</h1>


<p>Posterior simulator objects allow evaluating the behaviour of the posterior dsitribution, and drawing model parameters from the posterior distibution.</p>
<p>Posterior objects are set up within the <a href="../model/estimate.html"><code>model/estimate</code></a> function and returned as the second output argument - the set up and initialisation of the posterior object is fully automated in this case. Alternatively, you can set up a posterior object manually, by setting all its properties appropriately.</p>
<p>Poster methods:</p>
<h4 id="constructor">Constructor</h4>
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<li><a href="../poster/poster.html"><code>poster</code></a> - Create new empty posterior simulation (poster) object.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="evaluating-posterior-density">Evaluating posterior density</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="../poster/arwm.html"><code>arwm</code></a> - Adaptive random-walk Metropolis posterior simulator.</li>
<li><a href="../poster/eval.html"><code>eval</code></a> - Evaluate posterior density at specified points.</li>
<li><a href="../poster/regen.html"><code>regen</code></a> - Regeneration time MCMC Metropolis posterior simulator.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="chain-statistics">Chain statistics</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="../poster/stats.html"><code>stats</code></a> - Evaluate selected statistics of ARWM chain.</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="getting-on-line-help-on-model-functions">Getting on-line help on model functions</h4>
<pre><code>help poster
help poster/function_name</code></pre>
<p>Reference page for poster</p>

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